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2023-10-02 07:30:00
RVW, Elena Kats-Chernin & John McCabe's Notturni ed Alba with Donna Lennard from Kensington Symphony Orchestra & Russell Keable
The Kensington Symphony Orchestra & Russell Keable at Cadogan HallKensington Symphony Orchestra returns to St John's Smith Square on Monday 16 October 2023 to open their 2023/24 season with a concert marking music director Russell Keable's 40 years with the orchestra. The main work in the programme is RVW's A London Symphony, but the orchestra is pairing that with a couple of terrific more recent works by Elena Kats-Chernin and John McCabe. Soviet-born Australian composer, Elena Kats-Chernin describes Big Rhap as musical sketch of her memories of hearing her mother play Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 when the family lived in Russia. The work was commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 2017. John McCabe's song-cycle Notturni ed Alba dates from 1970 and features settings of four Medieval Latin poems dealing with various aspects of night. Premiered at the 1970 Three Choirs Festival by soprano Sheila Armstrong, to whom it is dedicated, and the City of Birmingham Orchestra, […]
2021-10-12 09:07:56
A chance to hear Alfredo Casella's Concerto for Orchestra next week, performed by the Kensington Symphony Orchestra
[…] by Pirandello! And his organisation of a Vivaldi Week in 1939 helped to kick-start the renaissance of Vivaldi's music in the 20th century. His grand-daughter was the actress Daria Nicolodi, and his great-grand-daughter is actress Asia Argento. Next week there is a chance to hear Casella's 1937 Concerto for Orchestra which was written for the 50th anniversary of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam; an appealing work, rigorously constructed and brilliantly orchestrated. Russell Keable conducts the Kensington Symphony Orchestra in Casella's Concerto for Orchestra alongside Helen Grimes' Everyone Sang (2010) and Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 1 at St John Smith's Square on Monday 18 October 2021. Full details from St John's Smith Square website.
2020-01-20 08:38:07
Acknowledging a debt to Scottish Renaissance composer Robert Carver - James MacMillan's Symphony No. 4
The Carver Choirbook, only source of Carver's Missa Dum Sacrum Mysterium Acknowledgement is made to the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland The Kensington Symphony Orchestra, conductor Russell Keable, returns to the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall on Thursday 23 January 2020 with a performance which gives us a chance to hear James MacMillan's Symphony No. 4. Written in 2015 to celebrate conductor Donald Runnicles' 60th birthday, the symphony was premiered at the BBC Proms that year with Runnicles conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.Unlike the composer's three previous symphonies, his fourth is purely abstract, exploring various elements of ritual in music on one continuous movement lasting around 40 minutes. What perhaps gives the symphony its particular flavour is that MacMillan has chosen to acknowledge his debt to the Scottish Renaissance composer Robert Carver and include parts of Carver's Missa Dum Sacrum Mysterium. Talking about the symphony and his […]
2019-07-26 06:14:53
James MacMillan, Nicholas Maw and Anna Clyne in the Kensington Symphony Orchestra's 2019/20 season
KSO rehearsing at Henry Wood Hall Photo © 2008 Sim Canetty-Clarke One of London's leading non-professional orchestras, the Kensington Symphony Orchestra, has announced an ambitious 2019/2020 season. Alongside more established works the orchestra, music director Russell Keable, will be performing music by James MacMillan, Nicholas Maw and Anna Clyne.The season open's with Anna Clyne's Masquerade alongside Berg's Lulu Suite and music by Prokofiev. Clyne's work was written for the Last Night of the Proms in 2013 and was premiere by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Marin Alsop. The piece is inspired by 18th-century promenade concerts held in London's pleasure gardens, and Clyne said of the work:'these concerts were a place where people from all walks of life mingled to enjoy a wide array of music. Other forms of entertainment ranged from the sedate to the salacious with acrobatics, exotic street entertainers, dancers, fireworks and masquerades. I am fascinated by the […]
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